No, there is not. Hillary won’t run in 2016. She’s 65 now and would be 69 in 2016. Dems do not vote for older people for the president, unless that person is already the Pres.Obama will appoint his successor during the 2014 cycle. Someone who is in lock step with his statist ideals.
Back in Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-four, a woman was running as a Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro. At the time, I worked for a fellow who had for decades hung with and was a consultant to the likes of the Rockefellers and Armand Hammer, and who liked to ruminate about things political. One day I had a bright idea and asked him, in the context of Ferraro’s candidacy, what he thought of the idea of woman President. “Ruthless!” was the immediate reply. “Huh?” says I. He explained. At the time, there had been three women heads of state of western-style democracies post WWII, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. Each one of them had successfully prosecuted a war and were themselves the roughest, toughest politicians in countries where politics was all but a blood sport. They were more formidable than any man of their place, day and time. Ruthless. QED. And Hillary certainly measures up. Imagine poor Boehner going up against her! (Myself, I imagine poor Bill. She’d bite the head off a railroad spike if you put it in her mouth…) GO HILLARY!!
First ask her if she or her husband paid back any of that 6 million dollars that the people sent in to pay for the legal expenses. Second I thinking you are going to hear more from chelse(sorry for spelling) Bill did not push obama for nothing.
Sorry, kiddo:.I think our republic will head toward a new type of hereditary monarchy. There are large numbers of career politicians now; so many families for which politics is the clan business.. Eventually the dominant political forces will entrench themselves as pseudo-monarchical powers. The result will be the establishment of kings, queens, princes, princesses, and all the other noble hodge-podge. (They won’t be called that, at first; but the divisions will be comparable.) .Look: Every election, a diminishing percentage of citizens vote. The percentage will continue to decline. Eventually like-minded blocks of voters will consolidate within bounded areas and the need for voting will vanish. .Super-smart phones will connect them all and sense their needs (or modify their wants). Regional differences of nationality and lifestyle will initially determine how the United States will be divided. Sure, there will be political skirmishes, even actual battles, to gerrymander emerging kingdom states for access to natural resources..But humans and apes are naturally inclined toward tribal organizations. The Kingdom will come. And Royals are so COOL! They’re like an endless high-class reality show: Entertaining — AND EDUCATIONAL. For instance, the world was astonished to discover that royal females have breasts, as per the recent photos of Catherine. And that Prince Harry can dress and undress himself without help (I guess)..In the near future, as the harbinger to serious monarch-ization, I think Illinois will roll over its political families into royalty. It actually has happened already, in Cook County and near environs. The whole state is nearly bankrupt, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it will soon gather forces to invade Indiana or Iowa, if for no other reason than to make them wear shoes when driving and to enforce worship toward the divine Daley Dynasty. .Northward, Wisconsin will be safe for now, as there are too many mosquitoes there. Wisconsinites might also stave off invasion by offering tribute in cheese and beer..No doubt another temporary kingdom will center in Texas, and other kingdoms will contain several southeastern states. And of course New York will be a center, too. Global warming will form a moat around a large area of New England as extra protection against invading ground troops. .But these forces WILL consolidate, and within a century or so, our nation will be an actual Monarchy, with a few small rogue fiefdoms scattered about. (Descendents of Sarah Palin will doubtless rule one of them.). Sorry, it’s inevitable, and communications technology will assist. The Internet will be subsumed to serve the cause; and techo-language and text-speech will narrow the number of ideas citizens are capable of. .News will go virtual, half reality and half fantasy; and most entertainers will be simulacrums with fantastically buff bodies. Everybody in power will seem smart and beautiful (but actually they’ll be dumb as rocks), so ordinary people will idolize them, grovel as needed, and despair of rebellion. Ubiquitous huge public lotteries will hold out hopeless hope to naïve billions..And best of all, Twinkies will return by popular demand and be a free staple food item, fortified with vitamins and tranquilizers. .Hey, uh, don’t tell anybody I told you all this – okay?
Y’know…there’s a larger point that’s beimg missed here, if anyone, not just Hillary Clinton but anyone wants to take a shot at running for the Presidency in 2016, they have to start NOW.
Alexander: You left out Banderike of Sri Lanka who prosecuted a very unsuccessful genocide war against an ethnic minority in her own country, and Vingis Swenbogdottir of Iceland who defeated the Royal Navy in the Second Cod War.
Keep telling yourself that. It may make you feel better eventually. Then go read a history book to find out what really happened; not what you want to believe.
The GOP’s heads exploded when we elected a black president. They still haven’t recovered from his re-election. If a woman president follows, especially Hillary, they will be crying in a dark corner for the entire four (or eight) years.
The tendency is to pick the candidates on the basis of the current landscape. But the landscape will be entirely different in 2016, and there will be a different set of “favourites”.
I can’t imagine that she would really want it, but she might do it for Bill again. From all I’ve heard, she is plum tuckered out from the job she has been doing excellently and just wants to rest. I think she was robbed of her chance in 08 and don’t think she will expend the energy again.
Absalom57 over 11 years ago
No, there is not. Hillary won’t run in 2016. She’s 65 now and would be 69 in 2016. Dems do not vote for older people for the president, unless that person is already the Pres.Obama will appoint his successor during the 2014 cycle. Someone who is in lock step with his statist ideals.
Alexander the Good Enough over 11 years ago
Back in Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-four, a woman was running as a Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro. At the time, I worked for a fellow who had for decades hung with and was a consultant to the likes of the Rockefellers and Armand Hammer, and who liked to ruminate about things political. One day I had a bright idea and asked him, in the context of Ferraro’s candidacy, what he thought of the idea of woman President. “Ruthless!” was the immediate reply. “Huh?” says I. He explained. At the time, there had been three women heads of state of western-style democracies post WWII, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. Each one of them had successfully prosecuted a war and were themselves the roughest, toughest politicians in countries where politics was all but a blood sport. They were more formidable than any man of their place, day and time. Ruthless. QED. And Hillary certainly measures up. Imagine poor Boehner going up against her! (Myself, I imagine poor Bill. She’d bite the head off a railroad spike if you put it in her mouth…) GO HILLARY!!
rini1946 over 11 years ago
WestNYC Premium Member over 11 years ago
today’s comic is not very critical nor insightful. what gives Oliphant ?
Simon_Jester over 11 years ago
Uhhh, just one little problem. Hillary is related to Bill Clinton by marriage, not by blood, so it’s NOT hereditary,
Personally, I’d like to see Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer take shot at it
emptc12 over 11 years ago
Sorry, kiddo:.I think our republic will head toward a new type of hereditary monarchy. There are large numbers of career politicians now; so many families for which politics is the clan business.. Eventually the dominant political forces will entrench themselves as pseudo-monarchical powers. The result will be the establishment of kings, queens, princes, princesses, and all the other noble hodge-podge. (They won’t be called that, at first; but the divisions will be comparable.) .Look: Every election, a diminishing percentage of citizens vote. The percentage will continue to decline. Eventually like-minded blocks of voters will consolidate within bounded areas and the need for voting will vanish. .Super-smart phones will connect them all and sense their needs (or modify their wants). Regional differences of nationality and lifestyle will initially determine how the United States will be divided. Sure, there will be political skirmishes, even actual battles, to gerrymander emerging kingdom states for access to natural resources..But humans and apes are naturally inclined toward tribal organizations. The Kingdom will come. And Royals are so COOL! They’re like an endless high-class reality show: Entertaining — AND EDUCATIONAL. For instance, the world was astonished to discover that royal females have breasts, as per the recent photos of Catherine. And that Prince Harry can dress and undress himself without help (I guess)..In the near future, as the harbinger to serious monarch-ization, I think Illinois will roll over its political families into royalty. It actually has happened already, in Cook County and near environs. The whole state is nearly bankrupt, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it will soon gather forces to invade Indiana or Iowa, if for no other reason than to make them wear shoes when driving and to enforce worship toward the divine Daley Dynasty. .Northward, Wisconsin will be safe for now, as there are too many mosquitoes there. Wisconsinites might also stave off invasion by offering tribute in cheese and beer..No doubt another temporary kingdom will center in Texas, and other kingdoms will contain several southeastern states. And of course New York will be a center, too. Global warming will form a moat around a large area of New England as extra protection against invading ground troops. .But these forces WILL consolidate, and within a century or so, our nation will be an actual Monarchy, with a few small rogue fiefdoms scattered about. (Descendents of Sarah Palin will doubtless rule one of them.). Sorry, it’s inevitable, and communications technology will assist. The Internet will be subsumed to serve the cause; and techo-language and text-speech will narrow the number of ideas citizens are capable of. .News will go virtual, half reality and half fantasy; and most entertainers will be simulacrums with fantastically buff bodies. Everybody in power will seem smart and beautiful (but actually they’ll be dumb as rocks), so ordinary people will idolize them, grovel as needed, and despair of rebellion. Ubiquitous huge public lotteries will hold out hopeless hope to naïve billions..And best of all, Twinkies will return by popular demand and be a free staple food item, fortified with vitamins and tranquilizers. .Hey, uh, don’t tell anybody I told you all this – okay?
Simon_Jester over 11 years ago
Y’know…there’s a larger point that’s beimg missed here, if anyone, not just Hillary Clinton but anyone wants to take a shot at running for the Presidency in 2016, they have to start NOW.
Godfreydaniel over 11 years ago
Usually, of course, it’s the “evil of two lessers”………
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Alexander: You left out Banderike of Sri Lanka who prosecuted a very unsuccessful genocide war against an ethnic minority in her own country, and Vingis Swenbogdottir of Iceland who defeated the Royal Navy in the Second Cod War.
Warren Wubker over 11 years ago
Hope she remembers to put Egypt and Benghazi on her resume.
DavidGBA over 11 years ago
Cut her loose for some sort of retirement?
cwsprague over 11 years ago
He would govern like Obama?
cwsprague over 11 years ago
Keep telling yourself that. It may make you feel better eventually. Then go read a history book to find out what really happened; not what you want to believe.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
The GOP’s heads exploded when we elected a black president. They still haven’t recovered from his re-election. If a woman president follows, especially Hillary, they will be crying in a dark corner for the entire four (or eight) years.
Gypsy8 over 11 years ago
The tendency is to pick the candidates on the basis of the current landscape. But the landscape will be entirely different in 2016, and there will be a different set of “favourites”.
kamwick over 11 years ago
Uh, no.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 11 years ago
I can’t imagine that she would really want it, but she might do it for Bill again. From all I’ve heard, she is plum tuckered out from the job she has been doing excellently and just wants to rest. I think she was robbed of her chance in 08 and don’t think she will expend the energy again.